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6.6.1 <tt class="class">partial</tt> Objects 
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<tt class="class">partial</tt> objects are callable objects created by <tt class="function">partial()</tt>.
They have three read-only attributes:

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<dl><dt><b><tt id='l2h-1078' xml:id='l2h-1078' class="member">func</tt></b></dt>
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A callable object or function.  Calls to the <tt class="class">partial</tt> object will
be forwarded to <tt class="member">func</tt> with new arguments and keywords.
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<dl><dt><b><tt id='l2h-1079' xml:id='l2h-1079' class="member">args</tt></b></dt>
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The leftmost positional arguments that will be prepended to the
positional arguments provided to a <tt class="class">partial</tt> object call.
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<dl><dt><b><tt id='l2h-1080' xml:id='l2h-1080' class="member">keywords</tt></b></dt>
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The keyword arguments that will be supplied when the <tt class="class">partial</tt> object
is called.
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<tt class="class">partial</tt> objects are like <tt class="class">function</tt> objects in that they are
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